Bird Flu Quotes

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Jose Mourinho

Soccer, Football, Thinking

"They said it: Jose Mourinho". www.fifa.com. May 27, 2016.

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It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

Eric Stoltz

Depressing, Real, War

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Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

David Letterman

Good Times, Thunderstorm, Allegiance

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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

David Nabarro

Bird, Disease, Flu

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War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine

Eric Pianka

War, Thinking, Ebola

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Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

Bill Maher

Ducks, Bird, Mermaid

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New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

Margaret Chan

People, Anxiety, Community

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I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Chuck Klosterman

Epidemics, Bird, Flu

"Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'

Tom Deacon

Girl, Eggs, People

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For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

Jose Mourinho

Soccer, Football, Fun

"Mourinho cool despite Man Utd run". news.bbc.co.uk. April 7, 2006.

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I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Annie Lennox

People, Bird, Hiv

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China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

Wen Jiabao

Russia, Organization, Effort

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There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Michael E. Mann

Bird, Flu

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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

Max Brooks

Thinking, Iraq, People

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Sick, Guy, Bird

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For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Susan Blackmore

Bird, Population, Flu

"We've got all the space in the world" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.

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Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

Huntington Willard

Cancer, Lying, Heart

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There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

Laini Taylor

Boys, Bird, Looks

Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.28, Hachette UK

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With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Jay Leno

Country, Fire, Bird

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The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Craig Ferguson

Talking, Bird, Waiting

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